Read full poem →THE DESERTED VILLAGE By Oliver Goldsmith Illustrated by the Etching Club
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To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards.
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. etchingprocess etchingetching chemicaletching ionetching plasma
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Poetry examples for “etching”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →ascertain the possibility of finding a mountain rock sufficiently
striking in position; to Mr. Richardson, jun., for his etching of the
rock, upon which the inscription is to be made; to his father for the